The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.
It's important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life.
I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.
The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.
I'd go on record and say yes, I think it's time.
I'd never devote a whole record to heartbreak.
I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
I think I've been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don't like getting pinned down by sex or how I sound like because it's not who I am or what I want to be.
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
When your so focused on what people say, how can your really be focused on the music? If you're concerned with what someone says, you aren't working on a real record. You're working on something that's just for now, to please people this very second. . . because you don't believe in yourself.
I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.
I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.
The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.
People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
Laugh, love, dream, strive, smile, feel, joy, look, try, fail, read, walk, search, share, help, work, fun, learn, retry, sweat, cry, rest, wait, fear, hope, trust, pride. . . when we have lived all of these, our photography might stop being a record of what our camera sees and become an expression of what we as photographers feel.
I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music.
Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.